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Sterile site infection at autopsy in sudden unexpected deaths in infancyP N Goldwater
The Women s and Children s Hospital, and The University of Adelaide Discipline of Paediatrics, Children, Youth and Women s Health Service, 72 King William Road, North Adelaide, South Australia 5006, Australia
Arch Dis Child 94:303-7. 2009..To examine and compare bacteriological findings at autopsy of cases of sudden unexpected infant death and those of deaths from other cause...
Treatment and prevention of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli infection and hemolytic uremic syndromePaul N Goldwater
The Women s and Children s Hospital, North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther 5:653-63. 2007..This review also examines the status of vaccine development in prevention of VTEC/STEC disease...
Intrathoracic petechial hemorrhages in sudden infant death syndrome and other infant deaths: time for re-examinationPaul N Goldwater
Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Department, The Women s and Children s Hospital, Discipline of Paediatrics, Children, Youth and Women s Health Service, North Adelaide, South Australia 5006, Australia
Pediatr Dev Pathol 11:450-5. 2008..1% predictive of a non-SIDS diagnosis. Thus, we conclude that careful assessment of intrathoracic petechiae at autopsy is likely to be diagnostically useful in the assessment of sudden unexplained infant death...
Rotavirus encephalopathy: pathogenesis reviewedP N Goldwater
The Women s and Children s Hospital, North Adelaide, Australia
J Paediatr Child Health 37:206-9. 2001....
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: implications for AustraliaP N Goldwater
Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Department, The Women s and Children s Hospital, Adelaide, SA
Med J Aust 175:154-8. 2001..Australia is in an excellent position to maintain its BSE- and scrapie-free status, but widespread active surveillance of neural and non-neural tissue from all species of farmed quadrupeds is needed...
Childhood tetanus in Australia: ethical issues for a should-be-forgotten preventable diseasePaul N Goldwater
Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Women s and Children s Hospital, North Adelaide, SA 5006, Australia
Med J Aust 178:175-7. 2003..Other issues raised by this case include community protection, and the costs to the community of treating a vaccine-preventable disease...
A pilot study of SRL 172 (killed Mycobacterium vaccae) in healthy chronic hepatitis B carriers and hepatitis B vaccine non-respondersPaul N Goldwater
Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Department, Women s and Children Hospital, North Adelaide, South Australia
Hum Vaccin 2:8-13. 2006..To assess possible development of immunity to HBV by the use of hepatitis B vaccine in combination with the adjuvant M. vaccae (SRL 172) in healthy chronic HBsAg carriers and in healthy non-responders to hepatitis B vaccine...
Cefotaxime and ceftriaxone cerebrospinal fluid levels during treatment of bacterial meningitis in childrenPaul N Goldwater
Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Department, Children, Youth and Women s Health Service, The Women s and Children s Hospital, North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Int J Antimicrob Agents 26:408-11. 2005..On the basis of these findings, clinicians should be reassured that repeat lumbar puncture is not recommended for the causative organisms in this study (i.e., for Hib, NMen and penicillin/cefotaxime/ceftriaxone fully-susceptible SPn)...
Maternal HIV seroconversion at delivery without transmissionPaul N Goldwater
SA Pathology at the Women s Children s Hospital, University of Adelaide School of Paediatrics and Reproductive Health, 72 King William Road, North Adelaide, South Australia 5006, Australia
J Paediatr Child Health 46:780-3. 2010..From this instructive case a constructive strategy for delivery and immediate post-natal care is derived...
Novel hypothesis for unexplained sudden unexpected death in infancy (SUDI)A R Highet
Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, SA Pathology, Women s and Children s Hospital, North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Arch Dis Child 94:841-3. 2009..The objective was to assess these observations in the context of the pathology and epidemiology of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) in relation to the role of infection and inflammation as triggers of these deaths...
SIDS: more facts and controversiesP N Goldwater
Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Department, The Women s and Children s Hospital, Adelaide, SA
Med J Aust 174:302-4. 2001..I present the case for an infection model for SIDS causation, which has largely been neglected by mainstream SIDS researchers...
The frequency of molecular detection of virulence genes encoding cytolysin A, high-pathogenicity island and cytolethal distending toxin of Escherichia coli in cases of sudden infant death syndrome does not differ from that in other infant deaths and healtAmanda R Highet
Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Women s and Children s Hospital, North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
J Med Microbiol 58:285-9. 2009..Despite the lack of associations defined so far, there remains the likelihood that genetic determinants influence the interactions between E. coli and the host, so these factors may be part of the multi-factorial aspect of SIDS...
Escherichia coli 'O' group serological responses and clinical correlations in epidemic HUS patientsHemant Kulkarni
Department of Nephrology, Women's and Children's Hospital, North Adelaide, SA, Australia
Comp Immunol Microbiol Infect Dis 25:249-68. 2002..This study indicates that co-infection with different VTEC serogroups may affect clinical outcome...
Sudden infant death syndrome: a critical review of approaches to researchP N Goldwater
Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Department, The Women s and Children s Hospital, North Adelaide, South Australia 5006
Arch Dis Child 88:1095-100. 2003..Close examination of the pathological clues would provide better insights into the mechanisms underlying this enigmatic and heartbreaking problem...
Fetal exposure to herpesviruses may be associated with pregnancy-induced hypertensive disorders and preterm birth in a Caucasian populationC S Gibson
Discipline of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
BJOG 115:492-500. 2008....
Distribution of interleukin-1 receptor antagonist genotypes in sudden unexpected death in infancy (SUDI); unexplained SUDI have a higher frequency of allele 2Amanda R Highet
Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, SA Pathology at the Women s and Children s Hospital, 72 King William Road, North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Ann Med 42:64-9. 2010....
A polymorphism in a staphylococcal enterotoxin receptor gene (T cell receptor BV3 recombination signal sequence) is not associated with unexplained sudden unexpected death in infancy in an Australian cohortAmanda R Highet
Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, SA Pathology at the Women s and Children s Hospital, 72 King William Road, North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Microb Pathog 49:51-3. 2010..Observed frequencies of the TCRBV3S1*2 allele and genotype in 48 Australian uSUDI cases and 96 live comparison infants did not differ. In future the role of other toxin receptor gene polymorphisms deserves investigation...
Staphylococcal enterotoxin genes are common in Staphylococcus aureus intestinal flora in Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and live comparison infantsAmanda R Highet
Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, SA Pathology at the Women s and Children s Hospital, North Adelaide, SA, Australia
FEMS Immunol Med Microbiol 57:151-5. 2009..aureus with SE genes is common in infants; however, their detection is unlikely to be a strong predictive tool for SIDS. Other factors (including immune response) may reveal a specific susceptibility to SEs in SIDS infants...
Genetic susceptibility to viral exposure may increase the risk of cerebral palsyMichael Djukic
Discipline of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Aust N Z J Obstet Gynaecol 49:247-53. 2009..Results were correlated with viral nucleic acids in the same samples...
Neurotropic viruses and cerebral palsy: population based case-control studyCatherine S Gibson
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Adelaide, Women s and Children s Hospital, 1st Floor Queen Victoria Building, 72 King William Road, Adelaide, SA 5006, Australia
BMJ 332:76-80. 2006..To investigate the association between cerebral palsy and direct evidence for perinatal exposure to neurotropic viruses...
Variant interleukin 1 receptor antagonist gene alleles in sudden infant death syndromeAmanda R Highet
Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, SA Pathology at the Women s and Children s Hospital, North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Arch Dis Child 95:1009-12. 2010..To investigate if carriage of interleukin 1 (IL-1) receptor antagonist gene variants are associated with sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) in a large cohort of case-control demographically matched infants...
Verocytotoxigenic Escherichia coli serologic responses in patients with hemolytic uremic syndromePaul N Goldwater
J Infect Dis 186:582; author reply 582-3. 2002
Curliated Escherichia coli, soluble curlin and the sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)Paul N Goldwater
J Med Microbiol 51:1009-12. 2002
Role of Non-O157:H7 Escherichia coli in hemolytic uremic syndromePaul N Goldwater
Clin Infect Dis 35:346-7. 2002
Outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O111:H8 infectionKarl A Bettelheim
Clin Infect Dis 39:148; author reply 148-9. 2004
